Childhood Quote by Denis Johnson

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

— Che Guevara

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded…

— Gabrielle Roy

“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world,…

— Hermann Hesse

Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the…

— Carolyn Hart

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with…

— Peter Matthiessen

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin,…

— Jonathan Tropper

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out…

— Donna Tartt

“It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those long childhood afternoons you…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred…

— Fernando Pessoa

“We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that the world…

— Salman Rushdie

I still remember the world through the eyes of a child. Suddenly those feelings were clouded by what I know now.

— Evanescence